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PREFACE.
In the perusal of the ensuing history, the author has dwelt with a particular satisfaction on the encouragement given to men of genius, and the noble provisions which his Hero allowed for cultivating the politer arts and sciences, the academy which he established for that purpose, endears the Monarch imperceptibly to the reader of taste, and was not injudiciously introduced to enhance the character of George, and to inspire an emulation of the most generous kind, in the bosom of his predecessors.———Learning indeed, notwithstanding the eulogium which has been paid to some great names, has not found a sufficient encouragement hitherto in England; and it israther
